Commercial Space

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Commercial Space
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Commercial Space

• Commercial Space Industries
• Launchers
• Cargo vehicles
• Crew vehicles
• Space tourism
• Communications and operations satellites
• Exploration platforms
• ISS, microgravity, etc.
• Asteroid and lunar mining

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Commercial Space

• Categories
• Funding
• Programs
• Future Projects

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Commercial Space General Categories

• Satellites
• Mars expeditions
• Space stations
• Space manufacturing
• Micro-gravity experiments
• Research/science aspects

• Commercial crew
• Commercial cargo
• Sub-orbital Tourism
• Space flight participants
• Asteroid mining

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Commercial Space

• NASA Commercial Space Programs
• Development
• Commercial Cargo Development 2006 - 2011
• Commercial Space Transportation Capabilities
  2007 - 2010
• Commercial Crew Development (phase 1) 2010 -
  2011
• Commercial Crew Development (phase 2) 2011 -
  2012
• Commercial Crew integrated Capability (phase 3)
• (base period milestones) 2012 - 2014
• Commercial Crew integrated Capability (phase 4)
• (optional period milestones) 2014 - 2017
• Certification
• Certification Products Contract (crew) 2012 -
  2014
• Certification Contract (crew) 2014 - 2017
• Services
• Commercial Resupply Services (cargo) 2011 -
  2016
• ISS Crew Transportation Services (crew) 2017 -

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Commercial Space

• U.S. commercial space launchers
• Delta light, medium, and heavy
• Atlas medium, heavy
• Orbital Sciences
• Ground launch
• Taurus
• Antares (Zenit)
• Minotar
• Solid rocket (Minuteman ICBM core)
• Air launch
• Pegasus
• ATK - Liberty

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Commercial Space

• Cargo vehicles (ISS)
• Developed under NASA Commercial Orbital
  Transportation Services (COTS)
• Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) program
  supports deliveries and deliverables
• SpaceX - Dragon
• Orbital Sciences - Cygnus

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Commercial Space

• Commercial crew vehicles to support the ISS
• Supported under NASAs Commercial Crew
  Development (CCDev) program
• SpaceX - Dragon
• Boeing - CST-100
• Sierra Nevada - Dream Chaser

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Commercial Space

• SpaceX Dragon

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Commercial Space

• Boeing CST-100

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Commercial Space

• Sierra Nevada Dream Chaser

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Commercial Space

• Orbital Sciences Cygnus

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Commercial Space

• CCDev
• Also covers commercial launchers
• Includes United Launch Alliance (ULA)
• Atlas V (Dream Chaser CST-100)
• Delta IV (CST-100)

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Commercial Space

• Commercial Crew and Cargo Program Office (C3PO)
• Manages CCDev and COTS-CRS

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• Space Tourism

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Commercial Space Space Tourism

• Suborbital
• Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo
• Initial flights planned for 2013
• XCOR Lynx
• Runway launch and landing
• Self-contained rocket
• Orbital
• Armadillo Aerospace Hyperion (vertical launch)
• Bigelow Aerospace orbital habitat (inflatable
  station)
• CST-100 crew capsule

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Commercial Space Suborbital Vehicles
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Commercial Space

• XCOR Lynx

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Commercial Space

• SpaceShipTwo

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Commercial Space

• Bigelow Aerospace orbital habitat

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